Burma: All That They Could Carry by Sanjit Das (18 images)

As the wild broke loose in an untamed spread of ruin, people fled - some cried, others choked in horror; some scampered in hope, while others crawled for mercy; scavenging for the last scraps of memory, in little pieces of frayed curio; united in defeat - against odds - uphill to scale, downhill to slide

If disaster struck, what would you save?

Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Burma on the evening of May 2nd,...more »

All that they could carry
Sanjit Das

As the wild broke loose in an untamed spread of ruin, people fled - some cried, others choked in horror; some scampered in hope, while others crawled for mercy; scavenging for the last scraps of memory, in little pieces of frayed curio; united in defeat - against odds - uphill to scale, downhill to slide

If disaster struck, what would you save?

Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Burma on the evening of May 2nd, 2008. In the terrifying hours that followed over a million people living along the coast fled for their lives. At least a hundred thousand would not make it. Two weeks later, Sanjit Das met some of the survivors and asked if he could photograph them with the objects, or the people, that they had saved as they ran.« less